I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoTechnology@lemmy.ml•In your opinion, do you think there are any legitimate and/or constructive uses for AI/LLMs?
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    6 days ago

    Tons. I think if people read my opinions on AI they likely see me as a luddite.

    My concerns are not about whether it’s useful. It’s that if the 1% use it to replace most actual workers, the lack of input will make future models actually worse than current ones, and at the very least would stifle innovation.

    I’m very concerned about models built on the IP (voluntarily given or not) of people, being used to replace those same people.

    I’m very concerned with where we go as a society if we do go down the route of losing so many jobs.

    I’m concerned about the race to get the best model, using so much energy and natural resources.

    But do I think AI is and can be a very powerful tool, to enhance productivity? Without a doubt it can.

  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Windows Updates Evolution
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    1 month ago

    Well it’s also. Windows XP. There’s updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There’s updates, install them soon unless it’s pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What’s that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I’m rebooting now bitch.

  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•it's a matter of motivation
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    2 months ago

    I was also thinking that. As an example, retail work seems to me to be a kind of hell I don’t think I’d want to endure. But I know people that really enjoy it. So it’s probably true of any job you might think is only done by those that are forced to.

    I think, if AI and robotics replace most jobs. After some years of pain when capitalists enjoy the infinite money glitch they’ve discovered, there will either be a revolution or a natural coming to understand that things need to work differently.

    Now, understand this would only work if the vast majority of work could be done via automation. In this case the vast majority of people would be able to pursue what they enjoy, a bit like the star trek anti-economy. If all remaining required jobs were no longer filled by those that volunteered to do them, there would be some kind of draft (think like jury duty), where people able to do a job have a chance to be called in to do it for a few months then released back to pursue their own interests.

    I’ve always seen capitalism as the carrot on a stick we need, when we need human productivity from the vast majority of people. If that’s no longer the case, it’s not a suitable solution and all the ideas like universal basic income are just stopgap measures to try to eke a bit more time out of the capitalist system that has already run past the point where we can keep enough people usefully employed to make it work. That’s almost certainly the reason we’re seeing the huge wealth disparity that increases. As the productivity per person goes up, all the increased value only ever rises to the top.

    Bit of a mini rant there, sorry about that.

  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke
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    2 months ago

    However, my understanding is that this could be exploited only by authenticated users with permission to add new media. Not like that’s a risk to ignore, but it’s not like it could be exploited by anyone on the Internet.

    I wonder if that’s the reason for setting the default live TV management permission to false. Since that permission might well the the route to adding your own malicious m3u link for that second change.

  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke
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    2 months ago

    Reverse proxy will let anyone connect to it. VPN, you can create keys/logins for your intended users only. Having said that, from what I could see, nothing in the security fixes were to do with authentication. I think (just from a cursory look), they could only be exploited, if at all from an authenticated user session.

    But personally, something like jellyfin where the number of people I want to be able to access it is very limited, stays behind a VPN. Better to limit your potential attack surface as much as you can.

  • r00ty@kbin.lifetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke
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    2 months ago

    From a cursory look at just the security commits. Looks like the following:

    • GHSA-j2hf-x4q5-47j3: Checks if a media shortcut is empty, and checks if it is remote and stores the remote protocol if so. Also prevent strm files (these are meant to contain links to a stream) from referencing local files. Indeed this might have been used to reference files jellyfin couldn’t usually see?
    • GHSA-8fw7-f233-ffr8: Seems to be similar, except for M3U file link validation and limiting allowed protocols. It also changes the default permissions for live TV management to false.
    • GHSA-v2jv-54xj-h76w: When creating a structure there should be a limit of 200 characters for a string which was not enforced.
    • GHSA-jh22-fw8w-2v9x: Not really completely sure here. They change regex to regexstr in a lot of places and it looks like some extra validation around choosing transcoding settings.

    I’m not really sure how serious any of these are, or how they could be exploited however. Well aside from the local file in stream files one.